Popular Spammer Tricks
February 27th, 2007Wow! This is a very very interesting web page that everyone should read to understand how spammers avoid the walls we put up to protect ourselves.
I always wondered the purpose of the blank emails that come into my mail box. No subject heading, no from address, no content - whats the point silly spammers?? Well after you read the tricks on the web page you will know it is a very smart way of testing if an email address is valid.
Spammers are skilled at their job - do I respect them? Well I respect their skill and knowledge but thats it. They have forced all of us in the commerical email space to look at our ethics and practices and thats a good thing.
Spammers take advantage of people who are naive in the ways of the Internet and thus end up giving their hard earned dollars to scams. I don’t respect that and I consider it criminal. At the end of the day we need to educate the Internet users not to buy anything off spammers because unless people stop buying off them there will always be spammers.
Click here to read the article about spammers tricks.
March 2nd, 2007 at 11:57 am
Didn’t see anything in either article about group emails (did I miss it?), or forwarded on of “forward this to 10 friends and you will win the lottery” – still one of the most common ways of gaining trusted email addresses. And its always “forward” not “send on”. . .you know why.
Theres one doing the NZ rounds at the minute for the daylight savings, started by a two-bit marketing company named “ezi-bed” aka “Cornerstone Investments”. This guy started a message saying it was a petition (now he may just be ignorant) to extend daylight savings and named a political leader in it. People then added their name, email address and home address to this list.
Now I have a listing of around 200 persons basic personal information that may allow me to dupe them for more. In terms of email, I can track back the “six degrees of separation” and bypass any email filtering by sending them an email from one of their trusted email sources – Spam or virus. Virus or spam. I can’t decide what to do!
And don’t forget the txtSpam that nearly brought down the Vodaphone network not so long ago. . .
If you forward this message to 50 of your friends within 15 minutes you will receive a good luck for the next 10 years.